Did Queen Nitocris Build A Secret Underground Chamber To Commit Murder?

Ellen Lloyd – AncientPages.com – Queen Nitocris of ancient Egypt’s Sixth Dynasty remains shrouded in mystery. Historians cannot agree whether Nitocris was a real historical person or a mythical figure.

The fact that she was mentioned by Herodotus, Eratosthenes, and Manetho, speaks in her favor as being a non-fiction person, but is it enough?

Manetho, an Egyptian high priest who lived in Sebennytos (in the Delta) during the Third Century B.C. and studied at the famous library of Alexandria described Queen Nitocris as the bravest and most beautiful woman of her time.

He credited her with the building of the Third Pyramid and stated she reigned for twelve years. Eratosthenes of Cyrene, (276 B.C. – 194 B.C.), a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer wrote that her name means Athena the Victorious and she was supposed to reign six years.

Herodotus (484 B.C. – 425/413 B.C.) who is widely regarded as the Father of History and famous for his work “Histories”. He gives a colorful picture of Queen Nitocris’ life. He writes that “after Menes came 330 kings whose names the priests recited from a papyrus roll. In all these generations were eighteen Ethiopian kings and one queen, a native of the country; the rest were all Egyptian men. The name of the queen was the same as that of the Babylonian princess Nitocris…”

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